Travelling the Silk Road brings to life one of the greatest trading routes in human history, showcasing the goods, cultures, and technologies from four representative cities: Xian, Chinas Tang Dynasty ...

Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

Steve Nimis in the Department of Classics. The "Silk Road" refers to a series of routes that crisscrossed Eurasia from the first millennium B.C.E. through the middle of the second millennium C.E. The ...

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

The maps have been cross analyzed with archeological ... But some scholars say the impact of overland Silk Road routes has been overestimated -- in part because ships along maritime routes from ...

The road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk carried out along its length, with the early origins of the route emerging during the Han Dynasty in 206 BC. This was ...

01:20:00Since time immemorial, the development of peoples and intercultural exchanges along ancient trade routes have played a crucial role in the evolution and transformation of human civilization.

From 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., ideas, goods, cultures, and religions flowed between this overland trade route ... Silk Road, ...

The findings raise new questions about the urban development of Asia across the Silk Road and how the route might have driven innovation. "The high-resolution lidar images offer detailed views of ...